CAF deprives Guinea of CAN 2025 organization rights and returns to the market
October 3 - Confederation of African Football to reopen bids for 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) after stripping Guinea of hosting rights for the competition, with Morocco among nations set to bid .
The decision follows a meeting on Friday between Guinea's interim president, Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, and CAF boss Patrice Motsepe, after the West African country, among the most continent's poor, said it was not ready to host the 24-nation tournament.
This is not the first time that an African country has been forced to pull out and questioned whether CAF is making hosting decisions based on political expediency without sufficient infrastructural research.
>“The 2025 Nations Cup awarded to Guinea will not take place there because we are not ready in Guinea yet,” Motsepe told a press conference.
“CAF will ask to receive new offers as the infrastructure and facilities are not suitable or ready for CAF to host the 2025 Nations Cup in Guinea.”
The visit to Motsepe was followed in early September by a CAF mission to check on the progress of the project.
According to Reuters, the decision to strip Guinea was taken as early as June. The latest decision is even more embarrassing for the organization of Africa's flagship event which has been hampered for years by staging withdrawals and reschedulings.
Observers may legitimately wonder why Guinea was chosen for 2025 in the first place given the expansion of the final to 24 teams in 2019, still a challenge for Guinea's scarce infrastructure.
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October 3 - Confederation of African Football to reopen bids for 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) after stripping Guinea of hosting rights for the competition, with Morocco among nations set to bid .
The decision follows a meeting on Friday between Guinea's interim president, Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, and CAF boss Patrice Motsepe, after the West African country, among the most continent's poor, said it was not ready to host the 24-nation tournament.
This is not the first time that an African country has been forced to pull out and questioned whether CAF is making hosting decisions based on political expediency without sufficient infrastructural research.
>“The 2025 Nations Cup awarded to Guinea will not take place there because we are not ready in Guinea yet,” Motsepe told a press conference.
“CAF will ask to receive new offers as the infrastructure and facilities are not suitable or ready for CAF to host the 2025 Nations Cup in Guinea.”
The visit to Motsepe was followed in early September by a CAF mission to check on the progress of the project.
According to Reuters, the decision to strip Guinea was taken as early as June. The latest decision is even more embarrassing for the organization of Africa's flagship event which has been hampered for years by staging withdrawals and reschedulings.
Observers may legitimately wonder why Guinea was chosen for 2025 in the first place given the expansion of the final to 24 teams in 2019, still a challenge for Guinea's scarce infrastructure.
Contact the author of this story at moc.l1664877382labto1664877382ofdlr1664877382owedi1664877382sni@w1664877382ahsra1664877382w.wer1664877382dna1664877382
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